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  • African agricultural reforms : the role of consensus and institutions (English)

    Studies evaluating the supply response in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to the agricultural policy reforms have found that agricultural growth rates after reforms have been uneven, and, in many countries. The...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 69937 Document Date: June 11, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman

  • Mozambique Cashew reforms revisited (English)

    Cashew policy reforms in Mozambique have been controversial. They are often invoked by critics as an illustration of how agricultural policy reforms supported by international financial institutions may...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5939 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman,Yagci,Fahrettin

  • The evolution of agricultural trade flows (English)

    Earlier research showed that during the 1980s and 1990s most of the global agricultural trade expansion took place among the industrial countries and among countries within trade blocs. These were also...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5308 Document Date: May 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman,Ng,Francis K. T.

  • Food prices and rural poverty (English)

    Economic development theorists and practitioners have long focused attention on the question of the impact of food prices on poverty in developing countries. The interest of policymakers in this issue...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 66677 Document Date: January 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman,Hoekman,Bernard M.

  • Are low food prices pro-poor ? net food buyers and sellers in low-income countries (English)

    There is a general consensus that most of the poor in developing countries are net food buyers and food price increases are bad for the poor. This could be expected of urban poor, but it is also often...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4642 Document Date: June 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman,Isik-Dikmelik,Aylin

  • Who are the net food importing countries ? (English)

    The purpose of this paper is to update the information on net food importing countries, using different definitions of food, separating countries by their level of income, whether they are in conflict...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4457 Document Date: January 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman,Ng,Francis K. T.

  • The role of services in rural income : the case of Vietnam (English)

    This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative response of the households and income growth after a major trade liberalization in rice...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4180 Document Date: March 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman,Isik-Dikmelik,Aylin

  • Growth before and after trade liberalization (English)

    The empirical study of the impact of trade liberalization has not convinced the skeptics about the economic gains after trade reforms. Some have even argued that trade reforms have led to economic collapse...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4062 Document Date: November 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman,Salinas,Gonzalo

  • The Indian trade regime (English)

    Despite attempts to liberalize India's import trade regime, the structure of import licensing is still restrictive and complex and for most products, trade restrictions are probably redundant as protection...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS989 Document Date: October 31, 1992 Disclosure Status: Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman

  • Protection and industrial structure in India (English)

    Effective protection rates in India are so high and vary so greatly that anything short of low uniform tariffs and the complete elimination of quantitative restrictions would not make the industrial incentive...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS990 Document Date: October 31, 1992 Disclosure Status: Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman,Ettori,Francois M.

  • Structural aspects of Turkish inflation, 1950-1979 (English)

    This paper analyzes inflationary processes in Turkey through the use of three regression models with successively more general structures. The empirical results indicate that aggregate output is responsive...

    Document Type: Staff Working Paper Report No.: SWP540 Document Date: April 30, 1982 Disclosure Status: Author: Aksoy,M. Ataman